“We have sent blood samples for testing and quarantined identified contacts”, the hospital’s chief medical director, Queeneth Kalu, said.
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The scare was occasioned by a patient’s death at about 2pm on Tuesday, October 6, after symptoms related to the deadly EVD manifested prior to his passing on.
Media reports say that a man had allegedly died at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in Nigeria due to the viral hemorrhagic fever, but the incident is unconfirmed.
The federal and the Cross River State government have dismissed the Ebola link to the case.
Director of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Prof.
Our correspondent, who went round the tertiary health facility in Calabar on Thursday, learnt that those quarantined were medical personnel and others within the ward moments before the patient died.
Sources said the body temperature of the patient also ran high, when he was brought in by family members, adding that the patient died shortly after samples were taken from his blood for investigation.
Nasidi confirmed that the Hospital accident and emergency ward has already been quarantined in order to curtail any spread in the eventuality that it was a case of Ebola.
“But judging from the information I have received so far, I am 90 per cent sure that it is not Ebola”, Omini said.
When contacted, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee of UCTH, Dr. Queenet Kalu said there was a case of a patient, who died of symptoms suspected to be haemorrhagic fever.
“‘However, we are on top of the situation; there is no cause for alarm, ” he said.
Last year, Nigeria was one of the countries that suffered from the Ebola virus epidemic after the disease was introduced into the country on 20 July 2014 by an infected Liberian man.
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It was also revealed those quarantined are principally nurses who attended to the patient and those who came in contact with him before his death.
